Then He Would Threaten to Kill Me for the First Time and He Wouldn't Let Me Drive and I Was on the Break

"My husband was a violent just awful awful the way he treated me was absolutely unspeakably awful and my first pregnancy was a nightmare," she says. "I had never heard the term reproductive rights I had never you know didn't have any sense of consenting to sex or anything like that all I knew was my marriage was a disaster" Her daughters were born 11 months after her wedding, nine months after their mother's death. The author is now living in New York City with her family but still writes from time-to-time.